..Although great variation in outcome between the patients is to be observed at each cross-section, the medium and long-term symptom-related course of schizophrenia shows a high degree of stability at the individual level...

..Scarcity of the knowledge of differences in the development, morphology and functioning of the male and female brain does not yet allow any definitive conclusions about gender differences in schizophrenia...

Main risk factors for schizophrenia: increased familial loading and pre- and peri-natal complications antagonize the protective effect of oestrogen in women

..35 children 12-42 years of age of patients with schizophrenia (ABC-Cohort-12-year-follow-up) were interviewed for studying objective and subjective effects of growing up with a schizophrenic parent...

..The depressive syndrome is an integral part of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia diagnosis should be replaced by a four-dimensional construct, with each dimension associated with a mainly specific indication for therapy...